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Cost is the father and compensation the mother of progress.
J. G. Holland
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Whatever of true glory has been won by any nation of the earth whatever great advance his been made by any nation in that which constitutes a high Christian civilization, has been always at the cost of sacrifice has cost the price marked upon it in God's inventory of national good.
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In my judgment, a great mistake has been made by well meaning and zealous men, through treating error and infidelity with altogether too much respect.
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I softly sink into the bath of sleep: With eyelids shut, I see around me close The mottled, violet vapors of the deep, That wraps me in repose.
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We live in the future. Even the happiness of the present is made up mostly of that delightful discontent which the hope of better things inspires.
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What do you think God gave you more wealth than is requisite to satisfy your rational wants for, when you look around and see how many are in absolute need of that which you do not need? Can you not take the hint?
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The love that gushes for all is the real elixir of life - the fountain of bodily longevity. It is the lack of this that always produces the feeling of age.
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Communion is the law of growth, and homes only thrive when they sustain relations with each other.
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Play may not have so high a place in the divine economy, but is has as legitimate a place as prayer.
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Work for immortality if you will: then wait for it.
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The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them.
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A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn.
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This world of sense, built by the imagination--how fair and foul it is! Like a fairy island in the sea of life, it smiles in sunlight and sleeps in green, known of the world not by communion of knowledge, but by personal, secret discovery!
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The faculties of our souls differ as widely as the features of our faces and the forms of our frames.
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A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life.
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So I take my life as I find it, as a life full of grand advantages that are linked indissolubly to my noblest happiness and my everlasting safety. I believe that Infinite Love ordained it, and that, if I bow willingly, tractably, and gladly to its discipline, my Father will take care of it.
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